Missionary ships

Groups include: visitors to Southern Cross in canoe; Southern Cross crew; schoolgirls on boat; Santa Cruz men boarding Southern Cross from canoes; indigenous men and women on board Southern Cross at Bugotu [Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands]; group of non-indigenous Solomon Island residents returning af...

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Archive & Special Collections MM/07/1/31 Open

Order number: Melanesian Mission 7/31, Box 38
Date(s) of creation: c.1900 - c. 1960
Level: File
Format: Archive           

collection SOAS Archive
id MM.07.1.31
recordtype archive
scb_item_location Archive & Special Collections
item_location Archive & Special Collections
scb_loan_type Reference only
scb_order_with Melanesian Mission 7/31, Box 38
callnumber MM/07/1/31
callnumber_txt MM/07/1/31
callnumber-sort MM/07/1/31
prefix_number 31
scb_previous_numbers 36, 37 & 39
title Missionary ships
scb_date_creation c.1900 - c. 1960
scb_level File
level_sort 7/Collection/Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Collection/Sub-Sub-Sub-Collection/Series/Sub-Series/Sub-Sub-Series/File
scb_extent 121 printing out paperand silver gelatin prints, negatives and postcards.
format Archive
description Groups include: visitors to Southern Cross in canoe; Southern Cross crew; schoolgirls on boat; Santa Cruz men boarding Southern Cross from canoes; indigenous men and women on board Southern Cross at Bugotu [Santa Isabel, Solomon Islands]; group of non-indigenous Solomon Island residents returning after the war on the Southern Cross; People include: Captain Sinker using sextant on board Southern Cross; ?Lanham and Southern Cross steward, Liverpool; Right Rev W J Simkin; Rev J Lawley Brown of the Flying Angel Mission to Seamen; Bishop of Melanesia; Nathaniel, son of Rev J Talofuila; Archdeacon Teall; Fred Hoare, Chief Officer Hoare, Miss Samuels, Captain Upward, Miss Barrett, Mrs Sprott, Archdeacon Reynolds on board Southern Cross Events include: dedication of Southern Cross 1932, Greenwich Pier; dedication and launch of Southern Cross VIII; fleet of decorated canoes welcoming Southern Cross, Santa Isabel; tea party aboard Southern Cross; Activities include: "Southern Cross" leaving Auckland for the Islands, 1908; dedication of Southern Cross VII, Liverpool; Sister Helen Barrett teaching Lord Howe [now Ontong Java] girl on Southern Cross; Activities include: unloading rice; operating radio; Also includes: interior and deck views of Southern Cross including chapel and altar; "Patteson"; "St Mary Stafford"; "Selwyn" Prints taken by/received from: John Watt Beattie; Triune Press, 70 Victoria Street, London; Captain Healy; Sydney Morning Herald; Northern Star; -
scb_access_status Open
scb_copyright Copyright possibly held by Melanesian Mission.
scb_file_number 31
hierarchy_top_id_raw MM
hierarchy_sequence MM.0007.001.0031

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